Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 343 Australia's first colony (please subscribe!)
The north coast of mainland Australia.

This flat and warm grassland was named "Xiaoquanzhou" by the officials of the Daming Household Department.

Only Zhu Kezang knows that this place is the future Darwin City.

Later generations of Australia belonged to the Commonwealth of Nations. On January 1788, 1, the British captain Arthur Philip drove a group of British prisoners to Sydney Harbor, New South Wales, Australia, announcing the start of Australia's colonization.

Now history has been rewritten. In June of the fourth year of Shenwu (1685), an expedition team sent by Daming successfully landed on the north coast of Australia!
This indicates that Ming Dynasty will soon become the master of Australia, and in the near future, Australia will be the inalienable territory of Ming Dynasty since ancient times.

In the "city center" of Xiaoquanzhou, two men in gray cloth long gowns, one tall and one short, were talking to each other. The shorter man raised his head from time to time and directed dozens of dark-skinned and curly-haired indigenous people to dig wells in jerky language.

A few soldiers who were obviously Han Chinese came running quickly with flintlock guns on their backs, cupped their hands and said, "Master Chen, I saw two large ships approaching quickly from the lighthouse. It is very likely that the fleet supported by Daming has arrived."

This Mr. Chen is Chen Xin, the fifth-rank member of the household department.

Seeing Chen Xin's face showing joy, he finally waited for the support from the court, and hurriedly asked, "How far is it from the shore?"

"Back to my lord, it's less than ten nautical miles away."

"Quick, quick, call everyone and go to the pier to meet them!"

Chen Xin gave an order, then turned his head and said to the shorter person beside him, "Wang Baihu, do you remember the Lord Wang I mentioned to you a while ago? He is on this boat and has the same surname as you."

Wang Qinian, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, was taken aback, "Is that the governor Wang Hongzhuan sent by the imperial court to Australia?"

"Who else? It's him!"

Wang Qinian clapped his hands and said, "Great! Australia finally has a chief officer! It seems that the emperor is quite satisfied with our work."

"That's for sure. Thinking about how it was all wilderness when I first came here, it's finally looking a little better now. This is our credit! Old Wang, hurry up and change clothes, and come with me to greet you. I'm talking about other things on the way."

"it is good!"

After a while, Chen Xin and Wang Qinian changed their clothes and, surrounded by [-] or [-] Daming people and more than a hundred Australian natives, hurried to the pier a few miles away.

It's just that, except for some soldiers, among the Ming people beside them, the rest are dressed as sailors and businessmen.

There are also a large number of civilians.

The reason for this is that the first settlement established on the Australian mainland was established by the Hubu expedition, and the main personnel were people recruited from Guangzhou, Chaozhou and southern Fujian.

The people in these places are more pioneering.

The soldiers with the weapons were drawn from the Wehrmacht.

On the way, Wang Qinian turned his head and asked, "Master Chen, how many troops did the Governor bring here this time?"

"It is said that there are more than 500 craftsmen, [-] people from the National Defense Forces, and some Dongying and Korean people who were sent here to do coolies, probably more than [-] people."

"By the way, it is said that there are still many Japanese women!" Chen Xin said happily.

Wang Qinian's eyes lit up when he heard about women. There are only aboriginal women here. It's really disgusting to see them like that.

"It seems that the imperial court really wants to spend time in Australia! Then, maybe we can start mining the copper mine in the east!" Wang Qinian said excitedly.

Although Australia produces sea cucumbers, animal skins, and birds of paradise, selling these items alone is far from enough for the Ming organization expedition team to pay back. Only when copper or gold mines are dug up, that is the real cornucopia.

However, Chen Xin shook his head in thought: "If we want to open a mine, I'm afraid this manpower is not enough."

As they were talking, the group had already reached the port of Xiaoquanzhou.

This is a good natural harbor. It only needs to lay wooden frames according to the terrain to build a simple wharf, but it can also dock four to five hundred tons of ships.

In a moment, two huge sailboats appeared in everyone's field of vision.

Due to unfamiliarity with the route, Daming did not dispatch a steamship for this operation.

Although most of the large triangular sails on the ship have been furled, the sharp bow still cuts through the waves with ease, obviously at an extremely fast speed.

In the blink of an eye, the ship had already sailed into the harbor.

A cable was thrown from the boat, and under the command of Wang Qinian, a large group of Australian aborigines tied the rope to the stakes with force. When Wang Qinian returned sweating profusely, dozens of people had already disembarked from the boat.

No way, in Australia now, Wang Qinian is the only one who has learned the Australian aboriginal language, and he can only do everything by himself when he needs to use the aboriginal language.

Chen Xin hurriedly pulled him forward and saluted the leader, "Your Majesty Chen Xin pays his respects to the governor."

"Wang Qinian, a hundred households of Jinyiwei, pays his respects to the governor."

Unexpectedly, the leader hurriedly stepped aside, helped them up and said: "Master Wang is still on board, the next official is the head of the official department, Guo Yuan."

It was the hot-blooded man from Hunan who went to Guangzhou for the imperial examination. Naturally, he won the exam!

Chen Xin and Wang Qinian looked at each other, and then they noticed that the pattern on the person in front of them was the sixth rank, and hurriedly asked: "I don't know, my lord governor..."

Guo Yuan said with a solemn expression: "My lord Wang was infected with the disease the day before yesterday, and he is already extremely weak. The next official wanted to send him immediately to respond to Tianfu treatment, but he was worried that Australia would run out of food and rice, so he insisted on unloading the things on the ship first. Manpower, return to the voyage."

Chen Xin and Wang Qinian hurriedly boarded the boat to visit, but Guo Yuan kept them out of the cabin, fearing that their illness would infect them.

The two of them had no choice but to muster manpower to move the supplies off the ship as quickly as possible, and they also asked people to send the goods collected in Australia recently on board, so that Mr. Wang could return to Daming as soon as possible.

However, Guo Yuan followed Governor Wang Hongzhuan's instructions and wanted to see the situation in Australia, so he had a good idea when he reported to the emperor.

Guo Yuan wanted to inspect it. This was a good thing for Chen Xin and Wang Qinian, and it was an opportunity to perform. When Wang Hong wrote the report, he had to talk about their achievements.

Soon, Guo Yuan and others followed Chen Xin for a few miles, and saw a hill with the top flattened in front of them. The top of the hill was about one foot high, and neatly bundled wood was used as a wall to enclose the top of the hill for tens of feet. in it.

The wall has two layers, inside and outside, and there are six to seventy people patrolling under the wall with weapons in hand, and nearly half of them are natives.

Inside the wall are a large number of wooden houses with thatched roofs. Although the workmanship is rough, it looks quite strong.

"I didn't expect Australia to have such a large camp!"

Guo Yuan turned his head and praised Chen Xin, "Master Chen has only been here for more than two months, and there are only more than a hundred people under his command. Not only did he find a foothold, but he also built such a high wall and house. It is really not easy."

Chen Xin hurriedly waved his hands and said with a smile: "Master Guo is absurd, this was originally a local aboriginal village, the walls and houses were built by the aboriginals a long time ago, we just let people repair it, it won't take too much effort .”

(End of this chapter)